Hey automaker CEOs—meet the demands of your workers. Also, take a pay cut. You’re not 600 times more valuable than anyone, especially those in your factories. #news
Demanding RCTs is great for bad faith arguments because there's many circumstances in which they can't or shouldn't be done.
"Do an RCT for causing cancer!" So, what, a 1,000,000-person clinical trial for 20 years with the goal of causing cancer? Neither feasible nor ethical.
"I kind of wish America’s elite liberal institutions would be elite liberal institutions, because they seem to spend a lot of time helping bad actors thrive. Harvard and Yale, to take two examples, have a lot to answer for. (Vivek and DeSantis and J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and so many of the worst people in public life these days.)"
~ Jonathan V. Last
Big amen. And all those ivy-league schools: all north of Richmond.
Some of you need a reminder that trans women are women and trans men are men, even if it makes you feel funny in your no-no parts. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Professor of Biology. Research interests in molecular, evolutionary, and developmental biology.